Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following some reluctance to become involved in air pollution control , the federal government opted for a research role in 1955 and only slowly did it begin to intervene with the control policies adopted by the states . |
| 2 | Because so many people so badly wanted it to succeed when it did they almost believed it was because they had willed it to . |
| 3 | That pair obviously just had it coming . |
| 4 | I could n't even imagine what this sensation might be like any more , so utterly had it evaporated . |
| 5 | I only just made it last time . ’ |
| 6 | Experienced planners could do this job in three or four hours — we had to arrange four meetings each lasting three and a half hours and they still only just got it done . |
| 7 | Only gradually did it dawn on those responsible that vigorous and determined nationalist organizations had grown up in the shadow of the Japanese , that these movements had flourished exceedingly in the vacuum left by the collapse of Japanese power , and that if the colonial regimes were to be reconstituted it could only be by force . |
| 8 | Only gradually did it emerge that she was rather a miniature whirlwind , perhaps an inch shorter even than Charlotte , but so slender that she escaped looking like a pocket edition . |
| 9 | It seemed to have been present with her throughout her sleep so promptly had it appeared when she woke . |
| 10 | Only later had it occurred to him to wonder whether he should feel alarmed by Charlotte 's anxious tone or flattered that she felt she could turn to him for advice . |
| 11 | Only later did it emerge that the Germans had supported his candidature for the post of High Commissioner in Danzig , and that he had since 1920 been on very friendly terms with Baron Ernst von Wiesäker , the head of the political section of the German Foreign Office . |
| 12 | Only much later did it occur to her that this was her failure : academically self-sufficient and wholly self-centred she saw their sullenness and ignorance as their concern and their fault . |
| 13 | Only now had it occurred to him that it was moving along quite different channels . |
| 14 | Only now did it occur to her how easily he could have taken advantage of the situation . |
| 15 | Only then did it strike me that there was indeed a role that a further staff member could crucially play here ; that it was , in fact , this very shortage that had been at the heart of all my recent troubles . |
| 16 | Only then did it emerge that the settlers did not really know what they intended to do . |
| 17 | For only then did it come to her that — she still had n't done her interview ! |
| 18 | Only then did it occur to me that , of course , my witticism would not be easily appreciated by someone who was not aware that it was gypsies who had passed by . |
| 19 | ‘ So how did it go today ? ’ |
| 20 | If it was put into freezers it made things cold , but if the same electricity went into an oven it made things hot , so how did it know ? |
| 21 | ‘ So how did it work out for you ? ’ |
| 22 | So how did it come to evolve by slow , steady , infinitesimally small Darwinian improvements ? |
| 23 | ‘ So how did it happen ? |
| 24 | So much good did it do them to take him up to that heathen place in Naas . |
| 25 | Much good did it do ! |
| 26 | So where did it come from ? |
| 27 | So where did it come from ? ’ |
| 28 | She had actually thought of asking for no less than John now proposed ; so why did it feel like a slap in the face ? |
| 29 | So why did it end with dwindling audiences and a critical drubbing ? |
| 30 | ‘ So why did it go wrong ? ’ she asked a little bitterly . |